Desire Path #6
Hello friends, welcome to another issue of Desire Path — a newsletter for photographers and photography aficionados interested in NFTs and web3.
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Two Crossed Paths
“Border Lord” by Matthew Reamer and “405” by Niall O'Brien are both Obscura “Two Years after The Storm” commissions. Matthew focuses on the way of life in 2022 in the Imperial Valley of California, while Niall depicts the 405, one of the most crowded freeways in that same state.
Three Photo Projects
“One Star and a Dark Voyage” by Barbara Bosworth. Vibrant and ethereal elements blend here to convey the delicate nature of life, at a place where heaven and earth meet.
In “Porch Collapse”, Mia Novakova illustrates the area of transition between the world and the Pale, a concept in the world of Disco Elysium. An achromatic, odourless, and featureless entity, the Pale is the "enemy of matter and life". It is the transition state of being into nothingness.
“One Day One Flower” by Nina Maalej is a collection that gets updated each day. At the time of writing, there are 29 flowers.
Four Art Projects
“Remember Me” by Luna Ikuta is a dynamic NFT — a garden, a public installation, a heart made of code.
“Silk Road” by Ezra Miller is a series of generative NFTs that explores the aesthetics of memory. “I began with the inspiration of the texture and patterns of moth wings. I created a series of texture palettes using new AI image-making tools, which started to feel like real photographs and images of memories. I combined these inspirations with a system for creating paintings which I began working on last year.”
“Objective: The Things That Are Real” by Obiekwe Okolo is an ongoing collection of audio-narrated portraits. The subjects hold an object that anchors them to reality while Obiekwe records their conversations. “Objective” is a meditation on the nature and function of artifacts - things we might be wrong to consider the ephemera in our lives.
“Eleni is bored again” by Eleni Tomadaki began as an online auto-fictitious project of illustrations and text in 2015. Using subjectivity, subjective objectivity, humour and fiction as methods, “Eleni is bored again” poses existential and psychosocial questions, and investigates the everyday and meditations on the self.
Five Things to Check Out
JPEG2000 is a new podcast covering web3, art, and internet culture hosted by our very own Vivian Fu and Noah Kalina.
Warm Crypto. “The concept is defined less by its strict contours than by the delineation of what it is not. Not money, but energy. Not exclusive, but inclusive. Not scarce, but abundant. Not isolating, but connected. Not trustless, but trusted. Not anonymous, but known. Not zero sum, but positive sum. Not ngmi, but wagmi. Not cold, but warm.”
Nick Cave on not having a separate space for his creative work.
Imag3aid — 57 photographers raising funds for humanitarian aid for Ukraine.
See you next week,
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